The right to life is of course at the heart of human rights, so today, on International Day of Peace , the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) is highlighting the importance of real action for the abolition of nuclear...

Environment reporters face danger writes Roy Greenslade on his blog on the Guardian website, pointing us to a report from Reporters Without Borders .

This evening's Channel 4 news had a report on 250 child deaths in Peru because of severe winter weather in the Andes. Experts are blaming climate change as an important factor. Many thousands of miles from Peru the weather in Mongolia...

There’s a man on death row facing imminent execution for the second time. How so? Romell Broom would already be dead if his execution by lethal injection on Tuesday hadn’t gone badly wrong when state officials couldn’t find a vein...

The biggest human rights story in the news today has to be the reports of British oil trading company Trafigura agreeing to settle out of court with 31,000 people in Ivory Coast. British law firm Leigh Day were representing the Ivorian...